That is it is much much easier to get on 1st page with a 100% keyword domain (especially .com) but u won't get there from the start. Google sees 100% keyword domains kinda like the "official site". If you build content and some quality backlinks the boost factor of the keyword domain gets applied, othwewise it won't help much. So you have to help your domain with content and links. Also once you are #1 is harder to get pushed down by competition.

Depending on the competition for the keyword, you can expect to be in the top 10 for a one page article, without ANY SEO back links to your site. I've done this many times with multiple sites.

Check your competition, get Google's toolbar to determine their pagerank, use yahoo to check their back links.

Above all, take heart what I said in my last post, do not expect to get 10,000 hits to your site a month, even if you rank number 1 for both. Expect more like 3333. Add a few more keywords to different pages of your sites, all the results will add up and get you more traffic.

Well it will help you out in the long run.... cant tell you exactly how much but its certanly better to have an exact match... especially if you just start out and your competitors are 1-2 years old. It will help but dont expect to fly through SERP just because you have an EMD...

Get Market Samurai trial and do a deeper research on that keywords and about competition. Search BHW for keyword research, there are a couple of good threads explaining it step by step and also some good tips to keep in mind when you do kwd research.
IMO kwd research is 90% when building a micro niche site. HTH. GL.

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